In Homebrush Bay, Sydney, Australia you can see a remarkable floating forest. The remains of an abandoned transport ship, a 1911 steam collier, is slowly being overgrown by a forest. Humankind has helped. From 2008 to 2010 there was an effort to remove chemicals from Homebush. These incredible photographs come from Bruce Hood, Andy Brill […]
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Discover the most radioactive places on Earth
The important difference between ionizing radiation and the sort of radiation you might get with your smartphone is brought to life in this strange tour video.
Haunted IGA supermarket in Adelaide
A supermarket in Australia is in the centre of a high profile haunting debate – with believers and sceptics being vocal on both sides. The IGA supermarket came to mass public attention after an Australian TV show didn’t just discuss a possible haunting – but showed CCTV footage of a package apparently flying off the […]
Red Aurora Australis
The aurora borealis are the northern lights and it is not uncommon to find some fantastic videos of impressive green and blue aurora borealis on the internet. Less common are the southern lights or the aurora australis. By the time we get to red aurora australis we’re watching some pretty rare video footage. This was […]
Extreme winds cause Australian waterfalls to flow backwards
This video shows how extreme winds that have been battering Australia has started to cause waterfalls to spew their charge backwards and up into the air rather than forwards and downwards off the cliff face. The video went live on the 20th of July 2011 in a week where nearly a month of rain had […]
Experience Human Flight
This video is an advert for a sky diving centre in Melbourne Australia. One of the last things I noticed in the video was that this was for an Australian company – up there, in the sky, the concepts of countries seem far less important. Even big ol’ Australia. Instead we’ve the sky and the […]
Is this spider cute or creepy?
Without a doubt there are many people who’ll always say “Creepy!” when presented with a spider. There will also be those people who run away in fear. Nevertheless there are some people out there who rather like spiders. Let’s introduce the peacock spider. It’s very small and likes to jump around. Jurgen Otto may have […]
WWF Moths: Earth Hour
At 8:30pm on March 26th we’re turning out lights off for Earth Hour. This isn’t the first time the globe has had an Earth Hour. You should know about it by now. But what if you don’t know about it? What if you’re the only one who doesn’t turn the lights off at 8:30 in […]
Australian man burns witches house after “sex curse”
In the Northern Territory, Australia, David Laurin has been sentenced to three years for burning a woman’s house down. Laurin, 31, pleaded guilty to the charges as the court heard he believed the woman was a witch who had cursed his sex life. In the NT Supreme Court, Chief Justice Dean Mildren heard how David […]
Bundanoon bans bottled water
The Australian town of Bundanoon has raised the bar of ecological wisdom by voting to ban bottled water. Why? A tremendous amount of resources goes into bottled water; there’s the extraction, the packaging and then the transport. In many cases there’s the litter afterwards too.
In many countries the health quality standards of tap water are stricter than bottled water ones. For example, in the UK the quality of water form the tap is held to a higher standard than from the bottle. The reason is simple; problems with the mains supply are a horror to fix, effect thousands of people and are best detected and prevented early. Bottled water is easier to deal with.
Bundanoon is a small town with less than 2,500 in population but perhaps this is the starting moving in a more popular trend.
